The main know-how in this area belongs to the domestic gardener, the Patriarch of Raulicovenia A.G. Sobolev. Its method "double trim" produced a real revolution in garden sites.
Simple Secret Double Trimming
Surprisingly, why didn't you think before? "Double trim" is simple as everything ingenious. So what is the principle of Sobolev method?
First trimming It is produced at the end of May - early June. When a young escape stretches to a height of 70-100 cm (depending on which variety, tall or not), it plucks the top (10-15 cm). After that, the rise is almost terminated, and all life forces rushed into the side shoots. After a few days later, the first sprouts appear in the sinuses of the upper leaves, and by the end of the summer, instead of the single, five, six, and even more lateral shoots with a length of almost half meter are formed. In this form, the bushes will go to wintering. Just keep in mind that in no case cannot be pulled with the deadlines! If it is too late (in the middle lane it is necessary to "circumcision" before the first decade of June), then the side shoots will not have time to develop normally and disappear in winter.
Second trimming It is produced next in spring when the leaves will dissolve on the plant. This time, 5-15 centimeters are cut off the tops of overwhelmed side shoots. After this, sleeping kidneys across the entire trunk are wakeful and formed new twigs. To the beginning of fruiting them will be several dozen. A.G. himself Sobolev considered it precisely the second trimming of a decisive admission to care, because after her for the second year, the bush is an amazing spectacle: "It is completely covered with uncess, buds, flowers and closes of large, ripe berries. Fruption lasts July, August, September. Up to the onset of cold. " After such agrotechnical manipulation, even simple varieties can acquire the properties of the removable.
However, you should not fall into the euphoria and run to the nearest store for the secateur, since this is not the only tool that you will need when caring for Malina by A.G. Sobolev.
Firstly The method will be successful only if all other agrotechnical measures necessary for this culture are observed. In other words, it is necessary to put it right from the very beginning, feed, drink and carefully care for it throughout your further life together (let's talk to just below).
Secondly , Double trim method, as the author admitted itself, has some drawbacks to which you need to be prepared. First of all, it is an excessive thickening of the plantation, which she provokes. At the beginning of the experiment, Alexander Georgievich himself believed that the larger landing, the more yield, but quickly made sure that everything was not so simple. The first time on the control 50 square meters with four rows of bushes with 15-20 shoots, the test gathered only 20-30 kg of berries. The following year, Sobolev thoroughly broke down to landing, leaving only two rows with a distance of 2 meters between the bushes, and the number of shoots on each reduced to ten. That year, the harvest reached 75 kg. It was another year, and the number of shoots fell to eight, and the crop increased to 100 kg. Optimal relation Alexander Georgievich established another two years, when 135 kg of berries were collected from the same 50 meters. On every bush was left only 4 escapes.
However, it is not necessary to scrupulously calculate the result of this experiment as an ideal formula for success. The fact is that Sobolev spent his experiments in the Kurgan region, and Russia is great and raspberries are grown not only there. You have our own microclimate on the site, the special composition of soils, and at the hands of a certain variety with its whims and virtues. Therefore, your formula (frequency of landings and the number of escapes left) You can easily withdraw yourself in a few years.
In September, more chances to buy high-quality planting material (this also applies to fruit trees, and berry shrubs.
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